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No 21.

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TWELFTH HESTING

10.30 a.m. Eth July 1906

Hon Mr E. A.Hewett presided:-

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

C.O. 537

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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All the Henbers préseat :-

Chairman - I think I tol! you Gentlemen at the time when these books

were first seised, I requested Hr Lau Chu Pak and Hr Fung Wa Chun, with the assistance of a shroff, who could be trusted,

to go over the books. The books have been gone over and gradually they have been returned to their owners but no book has been returned without the peñaission of Mr Lau and Mr Fung and all books have been returned, that we deen neces-

➡sary. One of these belongs to Sa lu and has one

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ntry of

a payment of four dollars to Inspector Woolley. I can't read Chinese but Hr Lau Chu Pak showed me the entry and told me

his

what it was in the presence of clerk. It appears that the

day before yesterday San Iu, his brother and two or three,

or three or four men from his firm cane and said they wished

to look at the bonka. The books have been constantly exaain-

-ed from time to time, but on this occasion four or five men

cane asked for different books and sat at a table in Hr Lau's

office. Mr Lau's clerk was there. They began looking over

the books and very shortly Mr Lau's clerk saw they were not

taking extracts but merely turning over the pages. He told

Hr Lau what had happened the first thing yesterday morning

and they found that the particular entry with fir Woolley's

name had been rubbed out. That is the book book produced

and examined by Meabers of Commission ) The man has wet his

finger and the entry is rubbed into a hole, Hr Lau Chu Pak

and two shroffs are prepared to swear the entry was there.

It is a very serious matter so I immediately went with Mr

Lan to the Attorney General and asked hån what to do and the

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